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Rising above the blame: Politics, race and the “racial stalemate”

Rising above the blame: Politics, race and the “racial stalemate”
President Obama’s 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech spoke of a country stuck in “a racial stalemate”: stuck in that place “for years”.  Yet, in 2010 we are still cemented there.  In “Shirley Sherrod: ‘Where are we headed?”, a July 22, 2010 interview conducted by PostPartisian’s...
August 11th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Politics | Read More

USDA’s Shirley Sherrod, consumer rudeness, and the conundrum of blacks in power

USDA’s Shirley Sherrod, consumer rudeness, and the conundrum of blacks in power
By Dr. Ibram H. Rogers The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently forced its Georgia director of rural development, Shirley Sherrod to resign for her supposed racism. On Monday, a conservative blogger published a two-minute, 38-second video clip of a March 27 NAACP banquet. In the video, Sherrod apparently...
July 23rd, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US | Read More

Farm aid: The black and white of it

Farm aid: The black and white of it
My family has been farming since slavery. I say this in a literal sense, not using the metaphor of how we all sew and reap the harvests of our lives.  We have gone from slaves to sharecroppers to owners of our own land and crops.  Our story is uniquely and beautifully American.  As such, my father...
July 22nd, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, Talk About Race | Read More

It’s time to have a Black Tea Party

It’s time to have a Black Tea Party
At its 101st annual convention, the NAACP adopted a resolution “calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous and David Webb, a co-founder of Tea Party 365, debated the tempest in a teapot...
July 20th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Opinion, Politics | Read More

Danziger bridge is just the beginning

Danziger bridge is just the beginning
Six New Orleans Police Charged in Post-Katrina Killings, Activists Say Deeper Change is Needed By Jordan Flaherty, floodlines.org http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jordan-flaherty/six-new-orleans-police-ch_b_647771.html This week, federal officials charged six current and former New Orleans police officers...
July 19th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

Racism in the elevator; misogyny in the video production room.

Racism in the elevator; misogyny in the video production room.
I just came across a video I’m pretty sure was intended as a statement of anti-racism. I’m also pretty sure its intention fails. More than that, I think it’s one huge step backwards. I hate writing anything critical of any attempt at anti-racism.  It’s hard to put yourself...
July 15th, 2010 | African Americans, Culture, Featured, Pop culture, Talk About Race, Women | Read More

The legacy of nappy-headed hos

The legacy of nappy-headed hos
by: Terrion L. Williamson Remember Don Imus? Remember how upset we were a few years back when the wretched shock-jock and his pals took to the airwaves to dis women of the Rutgers women’s basketball team, after they just missed winning the NCAA championship, referring to the black team members...
July 13th, 2010 | African Americans, Criminal Justice, Opinion, Racial Equity, Women | Read More

When things unsaid, say a lot

When things unsaid, say a lot
By Monise Seward “Negroes have no control over their education and have little voice in their other affairs pertaining thereto…The education of the Negroes, then, the most important thing in the uplift, of the Negroes, is almost entirely in the hands of those who have enslaved them and now segregate...
June 24th, 2010 | African Americans, Education, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Back to the future in education reform

Back to the future in education reform
Back in the day, schoolchildren celebrated the end of the school year by singing, “No more pencils. No more books. No more teachers’ dirty looks.” With states and cities threatening layoffs, teachers may soon be giving their principals dirty looks. The teachers unions and their congressional allies...
June 14th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses the current political landscape (Part 1)

Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses the current political landscape (Part 1)
The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality,...
June 2nd, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

Before you convict Lawrence Taylor for rape, consider this

Before you convict Lawrence Taylor for rape, consider this
As the father of three girls, I am not interested in defending a standard racist, statutory rapist, child molester or sexual predator.  I don’t even like fellow college professors who think it’s O.K. to sleep with their students (I lost respect for a colleague over a case like this a few...
May 21st, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

Birmingham, 1963 to Detroit, 2010- The tragedy of bombed and brutalized black girls

Birmingham, 1963 to Detroit, 2010- The tragedy of bombed and brutalized black girls
America is not the world and if America is going to become a nation, she must find a way – and this child must help her to find a way to use the tremendous potential and tremendous energy which this child represents.  If this country does not find a way to use that energy, it will be destroyed by...
May 20th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

NAACP, Wells Fargo and a Banker’s Heart

NAACP, Wells Fargo and a Banker’s Heart
Outside of Bank of America’s former headquarters in San Francisco, there is a sculpture that locals have dubbed a “banker’s heart.” The NAACP has come under fire for its “partnership” with cold-hearted Wells Fargo, which is being sued by states and municipalities for discriminatory and predatory...
May 4th, 2010 | African Americans, Economics, Housing, Racial Equity | Read More

Historicizing the Black Panther Party’s call to action (Part 2)

Historicizing the Black Panther Party’s call to action (Part 2)
By Ryan Kirkby, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, University of Waterloo | Read part 1 Despite the positive contributions made by BPP scholars in the last twelve years, weaknesses in the literature still persist.  Those concerned with writing local histories of the BPP have yet to provide...
May 4th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More
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